Highlight This: finds and marks words

Highlight This: finds and marks words

Automatically finds and highlights words and phrases on the web page according to your list

  • Highlight This: finds and marks words
  • Highlight This: finds and marks words
What is Highlight This: finds and marks words?
Highlight This: finds and marks words is an add-on for the Edge browser, designed to automatically pinpoint and emphasize words and phrases on a webpage according to your specification. It requires no registration. With unlimited words and lists, users can organize their search words in groups and lists. All data is stored locally. There is an auto-refresh feature that keeps highlights updated with page reloads and content changes. Users can also synchronize lists between browsers. The extension offers advanced settings allowing color-coding of keyword lists, excluding certain sites from highlighting, and importing or exporting settings and keyword lists.
Merlin
Stats
By: deboel.eu
Rating: 4.80 (10)
Version: 5.2.2 (Last updated: 2020-10-03)
Creation date: 2020-10-03
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • contextMenus
  • notifications
  • alarms
  • storage
Size: 1.59M
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Merlin
Summary
Analyze keywords

Automatically finds and highlights words and phrases on the web page according to your list

  • No registration required
  • Organize your search words in groups and lists
  • All data stored locally
  • Auto-refreshes highlights on page reload and content changes
  • Unlimited words and lists
  • Synchronise lists between your browsers
  • Free

Easy to use Extension that automatically searches for defined words in the current browser tab and marks them in a text. Many more advanced features available through settings:

  • Create color-coded keyword lists
  • Disable highlighting on certain sites
  • Export or import your settings and keyword lists
  • Use lists from Pastebin
User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • very useful
  • searches and highlights keywords effectively
  • automatically finds and highlights after adding search terms
Cons
  • doesn't highlight automatically like before after an update
  • doesn't support full-word match for Chinese characters
  • does not support Chinese character highlighting well
Most mentioned
  • usefulness in highlighting keywords
  • issues with highlighting functionality
  • requests for improvements such as direct keyword entry and toggle for notifications
Recent reviews
free, and very useful
by Lewis, 2023-01-05

So useful!
by Brand, 2022-08-02

Used to work perfectly, but now it doesn't highlight. Only when you go in to manually change and then save, then it highlights. But not automatically like before.
by Robert, 2022-05-12
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Safety
Risk impact

Highlight This: finds and marks words may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

Highlight This: finds and marks words has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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